What is TQE?
TQE refers to the quality management activity of inspecting and measuring a translation product in order to determine whether stakeholder requirements, that is, specifications, have been fulfilled (ASTM WK46396 New Practice for Analytic Evaluation of Translation Quality §3.2.4 and §3.2.5).
The goal of the evaluation process is to identify errors in the text. The most obvious way to do this is with an annotation tool. In our example, we annotate using TRG Annotation Tool. This tool must first be configured with a bitext, a metric, and an optional but recommended specifications file. The files are prepared in a preliminary step and handed off to an evaluator, who can then use the tool as a visual interface to highlight and assign errors to portions of the text. The annotation data is then exported.